Make sure you have the newest firmware, even though some are able to install with older one. I updated my firmware and then was able to install this following JKK instructions. Can you post what you are having trouble with?

By the way got Google Maps to install. I thought you had to rename the zip file to apk, but you actually right click and choose extract files.

I found my problem. I have to pretty much delete all my application that I install manually from the apk files. They cause the Archos to crash. Another anomaly that I observe is that I have to keep performing the accelerometer calibration with the Archos after the install. I finally just turn off the auto rotation for now.

Having a great problem... my Windows XP doenst recognize the archos in adb mode in the right way. He calls it Archos5 and the drivers do not work -.-. I have the latest update on my archos but still cant install the drivers :(

@bEE2643 Some have posted that if you have a firewall it doesn't let you download the files. Just disable to download. I just checked and I can still download them just fine.

@Anonymous Great you got it working. This is very nice hack to be able to have Gmail, Calendar, and your contacts all synced or at least you can view and update while using the Archos 5 for those times that you just need to check something.

This Archos 5 IT is starting to look better now that we can access google market. Just been able to access your Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, and GPS which works pretty good. I had tried the 7 day trial against my Nuvii and I was impressed that if you really wanted a all in one device. The Archos 5 can come very close. Now I need to find a way to tether my BlackBerry Storm 2 to it so when I just want to browse or use google maps for navigation and traffic I can do it on the road and not need Wi-Fi.

I think I may have found a problem with the driver issues on windows 7. When it windows downloads the android_usb.inf file it saves it as .inf.TXT. you need to get rid of the .txt part of it and hopefully all should be well

@Jeremy, I just did mine with JKK's instruction using Windows 7 Ultimate on my Macbook Pro. This is what I did.

1. Downloaded Market file from http://rapidshare.com/files/312721352/market4archos.zip which is what JKK has. 2. Download the USB drivers from above in step 2.3. Make sure you have the newer firmware on your Archos 5, even though some report they have been able to install with older firmware.Put your Archos in ADB mode; see above.4. Follow step 4 in JKK's instructions above.5. I created a folder under C:\ and called it Archos and placed all the drivers I downloaded from step 2; from above, and put the system folder from step 1 download.6. Type CMD on start and I right clicked CMD and ran as admin.7. Then type I typed cd c:\Archos which is the folder that contians all the files.8. Then just type adb push system /data/test/system and reboot your Archos.9. Then download the Maps see above and save them to your computer. 10. Right click the zip files and extract them then put them on your Archos by connecting to the computer and choose mount. I put them in the downloads folder of the Archos and just went to file manager on the Archos after I disconnected from computer to click the maps and street level

OK. I finally could install the google apps. But not before a full factory reset.Is not enough to do "settings -> about device -> repair and formating -> Full reiniticialization" but also you must do the "volume + power on" trick and reinstall the last firmware.I couldn't wait to do a full testing of new apps :-D

Will this create a dual boot between Android or the Archos' native OS, whatever that is? Or will Android become the default OS? I don't have an Archos but I'm tempted to get a 250gb model from Amazon for $200 to do this.

just a little note about the driver issue everyone is having prior to 1.4.08 the device identifier for adb purposes was incorrect so the windows driver was showing in the windows system as not containing any actual driver data to windows because it had 2 different identifiers, firmware 1.4.08 fixes this which is why it is best to update it that way it will work. Additionally windows will warn its unsigned dont worry about that it doesnt matter it still works.

Tried it on Windows XP and 1.4.08 firmware, though it doesn't work. It just stops were is says... "Daemon started..." and there it just hangs. If I then reboot my Archos 5it it just pops out an error message :( What do I do wrong?

Hey everybody, I would really like to hack my archos, but im not that hot on computers. So i therefore find the instructions very hard to follow. Could someone please find the time to maybe make a video for youtube, on how to do the above. Then even idiots like me, will be able to enjoy the full range of android apps :-))

i ran everything as said and it all apeared to go through however it didnt work. I tried a bunch of things that resulted in it not starting and having to do a restore. How is one sapost to check where the breakdown occured? Is there a spot on the archos that shows the files installed so you may view? I just wanna find out where i went wrong.

Did anybody experience a problem with mounting the Archos as a USB Mass Storage Device after installing all the files needed to make the android market, gtuff, etc. work? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Everything installed fine...but when I tried transfering files to my device....my computer would not recognize it. My computer wouldn't even recognize that a device was plugged in.

Ok, I take it back. When I try to download anything from the Market it stays at Starting download..... I am connected to a fast home WiFi and tested my internet browser for internet connectivity. Any help?

Hmmmmm after the second reboot it seems to be working (I can download, install, and run apps from Market). As for the Mass Storage Device message I used ADB like the instructions said, would mass storage work for Windows 7 x64?

Oh ok. For USB Mass Storage, running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, I can use Mass Storage Device for the MicroSD card I have inserted, but the G: (which I assume is the flash memory of the device) tells me I need to format the drive before I can use it. So, to answer your questions yes and no.

I took the sideload method for installing it when starting the Market application I get the prompt to create or sign in to a google account. When I try to do this it gives me a data services - sim card error how do I bypass this or am I doing something wrong. Still kinda noobie with this Android stuff

Thanks a lot, great hack, opening countless possibilities. I tried to install driver on my Win 7 64 bit machine first, but it said that system, is incompatible. So, I went to my Acer Aspire One WinXP/Android netbook, booted it up to Win XP and everything worked smoothly. At first, Archos seemed to insist that I need to login to Google, but I couldn't do it before setting up / turning in WiFi. Somehow I managed to exit it and then, after setting up WiFi, logged in to Google.

I installed Google Marketplace hack... it at first insisted on setting up Google Account and APN... then I somehow managed to get out of it. Everything worked for several hours. Then, suddenly, device stopped to respond... showed "Android" loading message and finally switched to initial screens again. "Tap the first cross", etc. Now it insists on signing with Google, adding APN, and not even allows to type. I have no idea how to make it working again.If it is so buggy, I'd rather return it to RadioSheck

Hmm... started to work again. It seems that one need to skip Google sign in which is offered again and pretend to go through setting up a device again... without any changes. Then, after finishing, it works again. But it's really scary and unstable. Not better really, than a buggy Zii EGG tablet.BTW, what is going to happen, if Archos releases a new firmware update? Would it remove this hack and all my settings?

is the ad-hoc issue going to be reolved in a futeure update? i use wireless tether via my hero running modaco's custom and it wont find the wifi teether and BT only works on eclair (2.X), and the issue with rooting is what, its android and open source is it lack of ppl interested, and noone want to put together a rom, id love a custom rom with no bloatware and root acess ad-hoc and all Gtuff loaded, also whats the deal where is a windows 7 driver that works...

HAVING TONS OF ISSUES TRYING TO GET adb DRIVERS TO LOAD ON wINDOWS 7 uLTIMATE X64 ANYONE PLEASE HELP , ALSO DOES ANYONE KNOW ABOUT A POSSABLE S/W UPDATE TO ENABLE AD-HOC WIFI TO THE ARCHOS I HAVE A ROOTED HERO AND USE THE WIFI TETHER ALL THE TIME WITH MY NETBOOK BUT HE ARCHOS 5 it DOESNT AND THAT JUST SUCKS..sorry bout the caps

I reverted to a standard A5A package, because nothing worked after installing a market hack. Applications were crashing, etc. Now device work again, although I insist it is not stable and isn't ready for a consumer market, just for Android fans.

Links for downloading Google Maps and Street View above somehow do not work in Chrome, they do work in Firefox. Google Maps and Street View work even without a Market hack, but you cannot use Latitude or set My Location.

PLEASE can we find a workaround i have 5 computers in this house and all of them are Windows 7 Ultimate, i need a ADB driver as im sure manyothers do, PLEASE, i try manually loading the apks, i got maps to work, market crashes and so does gmail and gtalk basicly gmaps works (without Longitude)

another thing is i installed all the apks at one point and got the google sign inscreen which made m avery happy but when i try to sign in it cant find a network or somthing to that affect and i have full wifi, any ideas cause if i figure that out maybe i can get the apks on manually again only thing im lacking is the .jads in the sys folder or whereever they go..

for all windows 7 use @Jeremy, I just did mine with JKK's instruction using Windows 7 Ultimate on my Macbook Pro. This is what I did.

1. Downloaded Market file from http://rapidshare.com/files/312721352/market4archos.zip which is what JKK has. 2. Download the USB drivers from above in step 2.3. Make sure you have the newer firmware on your Archos 5, even though some report they have been able to install with older firmware.Put your Archos in ADB mode; see above.4. Follow step 4 in JKK's instructions above.5. I created a folder under C:\ and called it Archos and placed all the drivers I downloaded from step 2; from above, and put the system folder from step 1 download.6. Type CMD on start and I right clicked CMD and ran as admin.7. Then type I typed cd c:\Archos which is the folder that contians all the files.8. Then just type adb push system /data/test/system and reboot your Archos.9. Then download the Maps see above and save them to your computer. 10. Right click the zip files and extract them then put them on your Archos by connecting to the computer and choose mount. I put them in the downloads folder of the Archos and just went to file manager on the Archos after I disconnected from computer to click the maps and street level.is important to have the folder archos on hd(c)with all downloads.

re.:Anyone else getting Cannot install this hardware even though I point to the driver folder? I thought maybe it was Windows 7 and just tried XP and same thing."=============================I had the same problem, till I removed the ".txt" from the ".inf" file. In the Drivers folder.

Hey all, I've had this hack installed for over a week now and it works perfectly. One thing I have been wondering though, where are all the paid apps at? I'm in the UK and I thought we had access to paid apps here, but I can't see them in the market. Anyone have an idea?

What about Vista? has anyone had any success? I keep getting the same problems as a few above. Got all the apps for google but only maps and youtube are working. Gmail and Market won't let me sign in...Help!!!

1. Downloaded Market file from http://rapidshare.com/files/312721352/market4archos.zip which is what JKK has. 2. Download the USB drivers from above in step 2.3. Make sure you have the newer firmware on your Archos 5, even though some report they have been able to install with older firmware.Put your Archos in ADB mode; see above.4. Follow step 4 in JKK's instructions above.5. I created a folder under C:\ and called it Archos and placed all the drivers I downloaded from step 2; from above, and put the system folder from step 1 download.6. Type CMD on start and I right clicked CMD and ran as admin.7. Then type I typed cd c:\Archos which is the folder that contians all the files.8. Then just type adb push system /data/test/system and reboot your Archos.

can you update the firmware further after installing this hack or are you stuck at 1.4.09? cause the system is still kinda glichy and i dont wanna do this just to have it be whipped out when i upgrade the archos firmware

This is great! Thanks. Couldn't get the driver to work on windows vista, but got it to work on windows xp. Also, just make sure when you go to type: adb push system (space here) /data/test/system. I didn't put the space so it didn't do anything a few of the time I tried. This is how I got it to work. Love it.

How true is the paragraphh below (from http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/01/21/archos.5.gets.long.awaited.android.update/ )

Early reports are not positive, however, as the Archos 5 with the new firmware is powering off on its own, doesn't find Wi-Fi networks and doesn't update its clock from the web. It furthermore fails to download e-mail and enters the power saving mode at improper times.

ADB doesn't seem to work with windows7 64, I can't get the driver working, the device doesn't even show up in Eclipse this is pissing me off, not being able to get the google stuff is one thing but I can't even develop apps !!

If anyone is having issues with not being able to install drivers (win7) for Archos device, try making sure that abdroid_usb.inf is named correctly........when downloading, windows may incorrectly name it as "android_usb.inf.txt" with a wrong extension. In that case you want to rename the file to android_usb.inf without ".txt" Verify this under command window and navigate to folder of drivers. Or make sure windows file manager has options to see full name and extensions.

I tried multiple time to do this. Command prompt stated ADB was initiated. I saw where all 21 files were pushed. Restarted my device and .....Nothing :(I went to file crop.com, downloaded the market4archos.apk, transferred it to my Archos. Under file manager on the unit, I opened the SD Card, double tapped on the file, then restarted my device. I was taken through a "google android-like" set up and....Voila!

works on 1.7.99only need to download http://rapidshare.com/files/338777897/Market4Archos.apkand install from device as mentioned herehttp://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2009/11/archos-5-it-now-with-android-market-and.html?showComment=1268652116740#c668648119775966924

I can't install on my archos 5, I've the last firmware 2.0.12 and Android 1.6. Everything goes right, but after the reset I can't find any diference, I can't find any google aplication or the google market. Anyone can help me.

For people who.were asking you can use the archos for mass storage if you go to settings, about device, repair and formating, mass storage type (or somthing to that effect), and then change it to fat32. The only problem with this is that it will format ur HD.

I wonder whether either android or apple will have any impact on the european and asian markets. Considering the rather lukewarm reception of the iPhone in the UK and Germany, this might just not be depending on the SDK, but more on the amount of handsets that will have the OS on it.

I have the 160GB version with 2.0.38 version of the Android 1.6. I trried the connect via USB and push way and all I got was some links from the /system/app/ and /system/framework folder that pointed nowhere as it seems no one on earth has access to write into or read from my /data partition.

Then I tried the other method where you just get the entire apk into the device and run it. The installation seemed like a half a successs and I all but gave up, until I watched the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef_ODQplFbU by Charbax explaining that you have to then reboot. Once I did that, everything came up.

But trying to run the apps kept asking to register the google account which is ok, buy the process considers the device as a phone and is not willing to use the wifi connection - the only thing I have. It would complain that my sim card is not configured to give access to the web and so forth.

Anyway, after another almost giving up, I thought I'd try the usb network option that is available under settings -> Device storage & USB Connection -> USB connection mode and connect through a web present PC. Viola! registration worked and the connection continued to work with WIFI after disconnecting the USB and taking the USB network option off.

i could not get the driver software to properly install because the device manager claims the driver is not intended for this program. I then checked the driver information under device manager to find the driver had installed. Then when i go to step 7 it claims the device cannot be found. Help!